Quote for the Day

"When Tom [DeLay] and his bunch first ran, they campaigned against the cesspool in Washington. After a while they looked around and said, 'Hey, this isn't a cesspool, it's a hot tub,'" - Richard Viguerie, conservative bomb-thrower.

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